A research has revealed that primary school children are under so much pressure to perform well in their exams that more than half will skip meals ahead of exams this week. The top educators in Britain have labelled this fact as “shocking”.

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TRUBA Group of Institutes and Government Women Polytechnic celebrated birth anniversary of India's first education minister Mulana Abul Kalam Azad as National Education Day on Monday.

Dr MV Shetty Institute of Technology, in association with ISTE chapter will organise National Education day on Saturday. In this connection Essay competition is organised for all engineering students on the topic- "Molding Academics to industrial scenario for achieving excellence" in the Library hall at 12 noon.

Health minister Dr Deepak Sawant said the government would allow private medical colleges to adopt primary health centres if they wanted to do so.

Harsha Moily, CEO of Moksha Yug Access India Private Ltd, whose candidate for Dakshina Kannada parliamentary constituency Congress primaries was rejected, said, "I will back the party nominee for the constituency and will also campaign for the person."

Harsha Moily, CEO of Moksha Yug Access India Private Ltd, whose candidate for Dakshina Kannada parliamentary Congress primaries was rejected, has said he will not appeal against the decision taken by AICC general secretary in-charge of the primaries.

Former KPCC president B Janardhan Poojary is allocated the aeroplane symbol and Congress leader Monu U K the cricket bat symbol for the Indian National Congress primaries for Dakshina Kannada parliamentary constituency.

Former KPCC president B Janardhan Poojary and Congress leader Monu U K are the only names displayed on the summary sheet of Indian National Congress primaries for Dakshina Kannada parliamentary constituency. The name of other contender Harsha Moily is missing.

The Congress primaries for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency will be held on March 9, said Praniel Nair, Lok Sabha Returning Officer (LRO) for the constituency.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's much hyped selection of candidate for ensuing parliamentary election on the line of US primaries started in Indore on Wednesday.

​T he state government has also taken steps to usher in an education policy for the state on lines with a national education policy that is being chalked out by the union government, minister for higher education R V Deshpande said.

Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute will hold a continuing medical education (CME) programme on, 'Golden hour in trauma' on March 20 on the institute premises. The institute will also offer a course on 'Basic life support' (BLS) to the first 25 candidates enrolling for the course. CME registration will be compulsory for enrolling into BLS course. American Heart Association has given accreditation to the BLS course.

Indians spend about USD 6-7 billion every year in sending their children abroad for higher education. It is not just the elite who spend generously on a good education and credentials but the middle class families also spend their life time savings to educating their children abroad, the study noted with concern.